Belkis Ayón, Cuban painter and lithographer (born 1967)

Belkis Ayón

Cuban visual artist (1967–1999)

Belkis Ayón was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography. Ayón created large, highly detailed allegorical collagraphs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often in black and white, consisting of ghost-white figures with…